How to Wheelie Tutorial!

Hey, what's good guys? Ahhhhh! I hope everyone... Whoa, there's grass here! Sugar. I went through it. I hope everyone's having a grand, fantastic day. Look at the blue skies. The sun's beaming down. I'm getting a little bit of heat on my body, and I love it. You guys know why I brought you guys here. You know why exactly I brought you here. You know exactly why I brought you here. So why don't we talk? There's a reason I have the 360 camera, there's a reason I look like this, there's a reason I brought the other camera to record this! I'm here to teach you guys how to wheelie, again, because I did it like a year ago, and it came out okay, right? It came out, you know, it was pretty good. But, I have learned a lot in the past year, and I'm going to give you it from my point of view. I am not the best wheelier, wheelier-er-er, if that's a word. I don't know everything, I'm not the best at everything, I'm still learning, I'm always going to be learning. But, I will kind of give you what I know, and what works for me, because I'm not going to say that everything I do is correct. I mean, it's got me this far. So, I think I'm doing something right, let's just go off on that limb, right? First, gear. You should probably be a little bit more geared up than I do. All I have on is a chest protector, and a helmet, and some gloves. If you have protection, leg protection, shin guards, elbow guards, any of that, a jacket. If you're on a sport bike, wear a jacket, or a full suit. Wear gear, wear gear. I don't care if you're on the ground, like, wear gear. Who's calling me? You call it bad times. I'm going to teach you kind of step by step, and I'll give you a demonstration on the actual physical bike. You can do two. There's a clutch up, and there's a power up wheelie. You can do either or. Power up wheelies are by pretty much yanking the throttle, and giving it a certain amount of power to raise the front wheel. And sometimes it's not enough, sometimes it can be too much. And we'll get to pretty much protecting yourself, and protecting how you can not loop a wheelie. Let me jump into the basics of actually getting the front wheel to go up into a wheelie. First thing you're going to do, is you're going to pull the clutch. If you want to do a clutch up, what you're going to do is pull the clutch in, very briefly, and at the same time, give it a little bit of gas. Don't start off by pulling the clutch, and then yanking the throttle. A quick motion of pulling the clutch, and giving it a little bit of gas. And all at the same time, you're going to release that clutch at the same time you just pulled it back in, pretty much. And giving it a little bit of gas, which throws the RPMs up, which will jolt the bike. And at that point, the front wheel will start to go back. Now, on a very important thing, right? On a bike, you have a rear brake, right here. That controls the rear brake. You want to snap that mother trucker down! If you ever go up too high, or past your comfort zone. What I do, is sometimes when I wheelie, or right before I'm about to wheelie, I tap it. I just give it a good couple taps in there. So my body knows that, and the reflexes know that it's there. I can use it. And then I... Understand that movement first. That is to protect yourself, so you don't loop this trucker. Let me explain on the bike, of how to clutch up. This is the easiest way to get that front wheel off the ground. So what I'm going to do, is I'm going to pull the clutch in. Not engaged, right? I'm going to give it gas, and release just as quick. So... Bike, just like that. Let's do it again. Low RPMs, mid RPMs, it depends on what bike. Quick motion. Just... This FZ-07 is the perfect bike for this. So now that we got that down, I'm just staying stiff. And I'm kind of just acting as if I were you, in your beginner steps. You just now learned how to clutch it up, right? You got the front wheel up. So now you're doing a good job. Glass, again, I forgot! So next, I'm going to teach you how to hold it. It's going to feel intimidating. The bike's going to come up. You're going to be like, oh my gosh. You're literally going to probably do this. Whoa! And then throw it down, right? And you're going to think you're scraping. You're 100% going to feel like you're scraping. It's just such a foreign feeling. It's still a foreign feeling for me to go back past my comfortable zone. Now that you kind of got it to clutch up, I want to make sure your position is correct. You could be all up on the tank. You could be like this, right? Watch this. You could be... I hope that looked as stupid as it felt. Let me get your position correct. There's a flow to it, and you're going to be a little stiff. But you'll open up, all right? I promise. Let me put it in neutral. Yeah, yeah. Let's imagine both of my legs are on the pegs. Move my butt back a little bit. It's a bag of seed, all right? Move my booty back. Got to get some weight back there, right? And maybe you're struggling to get the bike up. Maybe you ride a Grom, right? This is very important. Body position is a lot. Just like dragging me. Body position. We're going to move our butt back and transfer the weight back. Will be the actual flow of initiating the wheelie. Now, you can do this in a clutch up or power up. This is very key, I think, to beginners because it can really help. Becca did the same thing. She struggled with it for a while. And I told her, you have to transfer your weight. You have to load the front suspension. And then you have to essentially go with the flow and use your body weight to pull it back. You're not really pulling on the bike to go up, but you're doing it a little bit. You want to transfer weight and go with the flow. When I'm doing a clutch up, you'll see myself. The camera goes in a little bit because I bend my arms, my butt's back. And I come in and I pull back. And this will help you pretty exponentially. You'll notice a big difference. All at the same time, covering that rear brake. Don't ever forget. I'm going to drill it into your brain. And don't forget the rear brake like me. I'm not the best at it, though. I don't know how to drop back. So I'm still learning. So I just went from... I went from that. It would be nice if I was in gear. And I'm going to... And I'm going to transfer that weight again. It's like seamless. It's a little bumpy, I'm sorry. I'm doing nothing of any importance. The idea is, you're going to go out of your comfort zone. A lot. When you're learning the wheelie. And it's a progression rate. Don't expect to get all this down in one day. At all. Practice makes perfect. So what you need to do is learn how high that wheel is supposed to go. How high your arms are supposed to go. And don't overthink it. Because it's really just a feeling. It's all based off a feeling. You learn it over time. And you understand kind of where the bike is supposed to be. How it's going to feel. And what triggers kind of put that out of proportion. And kind of raise a red flag. What we're going to do is see how far up we can actually pull the bike. And this is to my comfort zone. This is what I'm working on. It's how far I can actually bring this bike up. You might start off like this. It didn't go off that high. It didn't even go above my face. It can 100% get a little bit sketchy. Because the bike's going in front of your face. You can't see. It's intimidating because it feels like you're falling backwards. But you're not. Not just yet. If you cover the rear brake. When your gut goes. Then hit the rear brake and let off the throttle. Just do that. You'll be okay. But that's why we wear gear. Because we do sometimes make mistakes. Is she racing him? Big smiles. He's loving it. One of your issues that you might have. Is you're kind of chopping the throttle. My issue with the 600. When I got the FZ07. It was a lot smoother. Some throttles might be really responsive. Which makes it really hard to kind of keep the wheelie in control. You might go like this. And you're going to chase out the wheelie. If the front wheel is lower to the ground. You're probably. To keep the wheel up. You're going to have to add more power. Which is adding more speed. Which means you're going to run out of gear. A way to fix that. Is by going up higher. If you go up higher. It requires less momentum. Essentially. Less speed. And acceleration. And torque. To keep the wheelie up. A wheelie can last longer. The higher you get it. Until you master that rear brake. But let's not worry about that. We're focusing on other important stuff. Stay focused Cam. So instead of that kind of sketchy. We're going to practice. Keeping that wheelie smooth. But what we don't want to do. Is also slam the wheel down. So. Let me explain to you. When I put my wheelies down. I don't want to blow my fork seals out. So I have it up. And then. You add gas at the end. Basically as you're dropping the front wheel. Because you're putting the wheelie down. You add gas. So that when you bring it down. Instead of just. Whomp. All the weight going down. Because you have no throttle. And you just cut power maybe. As it's dropping. Add gas. So it. It wants to stay up. You want it to go down. So you let it fall down. But you add gas. So it doesn't slam down. And it lightens the load. On the actual forks. I don't want you blowing a rim. Tire. Fork seals. Or your nuts out. So. I would have honestly expected the cops to be here already. But they're not. I gotta be. And I just be. She's practicing. Let's see how she's doing. Woo. But that's. Honestly. That's probably. Everything I would tell you. From a standpoint. Of not knowing how to wheelie. Or struggling to learn. It's really just perfecting that stuff. At the moment. Learning how high you can bring the bike. Understanding. Your bike. And the power. And learning how to use that rear brake. Slow down the wheelies. Now. What can help. And boost it up. The biggest disability. Of learning. Is a. Slight incline. Right? If you go up a hill. It requires less. Power. Flat ground. Will work. So. If you have flat ground. Find an open area. Like this. As such. No traffic. Road's kinda. Even. Not too much gravel in the ground. Or if you can find a slight uphill. Try that as well.